The legislation was first proposed in two thousand seven by Joe Biden, then a senator, now the vice president.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Then a senator from Delaware agreed to be chairman of a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

In nineteen sixty-eight, Robert Kennedy, a senator from New York, sought the Democratic nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Alaska Senator Mark Begich is leading a group of other United States senators, organizations and businesses to try to stop the FDA approval process.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

Robert Kennedy,a senator, ran for president in nineteen sixty-eight and was killed that same year.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

A senator from Kansas was another who refused to let pressure decide his vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

John became president. Robert became his attorney general, and later a senator.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Grover Cleveland defeated James Blaine, a senator from the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

A senator from Maine was one who felt the pressure.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He had been a senator from California.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

In 2002,he voted against authorizing the Iraq war, a decision he later called "the best vote" he had made since becoming a senator in 1962.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

This was Meggin McPhee's second appointment with a senator.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, a Democrat, had his hands full trying to calm down a man in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who was angry about being denied a chance to ask a question.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Safdar Abbassi,a senator and long time PPP member who had close ties to Benazir Bhutto, told VOA that Mr.Zardari's recent actions to crack down on anti-government protests have provoked dissension within the party.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Senator Lodge continued. "A literacy test will bear very lightly, if at all, upon English-speaking immigrants or Germans,Scandinavians and French.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The vote was delayed in part because of the death of longtime Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

In September of nineteen sixty-nine Senator Nelson announced his aim to create a national version of an environmental teach-in.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He served five terms. In nineteen fifty-eight, McCarthy defeated a Republican Party senator and won a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

A few days after McCarthy's success, Senator Robert Kennedy entered the race for the Democratic nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Among other things, they say he sought to profit from his duty to appoint a United States senator to complete Barack Obama's term.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

One of them was Louis Wigfall, a former United States senator from Texas, now a Confederate officer.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

In 1864, a United States senator called for legislation to give the Yosemite Valley to the state of California as a public park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07